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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the riflemen do as the British retreat from the French?
(a) Conduct guerrilla warfare.
(b) Guard the flanks.
(c) Take the point.
(d) Guard the rear.

2. What does the sergeant Williams order the riflemen to do before the second attack of the French?
(a) Go to the woods.
(b) Charge the French.
(c) Form a square.
(d) Drop into the trenches.

3. What does Major Dunnet tell Captain Murray about the lieutenant?
(a) The lieutenant's men won't listen to him.
(b) He is not a real officer.
(c) He is incompetent.
(d) The lieutenant is a great tactician.

4. What does Williams tell Sharpe is part of the reason the riflemen have fought so hard?
(a) So that they could loot the French dead.
(b) So that Shapre would free Harper.
(c) To help Vivar save the strongbox.
(d) So they do not have to march to Lisbon.

5. Who, of the men chasing Vivar, knows the contents of the strongbox and where Vivar is going with it?
(a) The man in the black coat and white boots.
(b) Colonel Pierre de l'Eclin
(c) Captain Murray.
(d) Richard Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom is Major Blas Vivar hiding a strongbox?

2. What do the British and Spanish troops discover when they enter a village?

3. What does Harper do the night of the battle?

4. What does Harper refuse to do?

5. What does Sharpe advise Vivar not to do?

(see the answer key)

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